Definitions for venial

venial ve·ni·al

Spelling: [vee-nee-uh l, veen-yuh l]
IPA: /ˈvi ni əl, ˈvin yəl/

Venial is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in venial (aeilnv).

Definitions for venial

adjective

  1. able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal).
  2. excusable; trifling; minor:

Origin of venial

1250-1300; Middle English Medieval Latin veniālis, equivalent to Latin veni(a) grace, favor, indulgence (akin to venus; see venerate, Venus<

Examples for venial

Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes.

The Bibliotaph could not be convinced that his sin of autograph collecting was not venial.

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Now that she was caught, she no longer thought of her offense as venial.

He, however, so softened his narrative as to leave it but a venial error.

Those who keep the fast "will be pardoned all their past venial sins."

I hope so small a divergence may seem a venial error after so many centuries.

The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.

To misuse and neglect the flag of his country was, indeed, no venial offense in his eyes.

Yet it appeared to me that we were all, at Bly, sufficiently sacrificed to make that venial.

Word Value for venial
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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